• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time spent building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
• Strong product instincts and a track record of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes
• Deep experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems that other engineers build on top of
• Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams without owning them directly
• Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute to and review complex codebases
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
• High agency and a bias toward owning problems end-to-end
• Experience building platforms that power AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces
• Experience designing platforms that support both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments
• Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company